miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
If you don't want to call it "mastering" then that's fine. But someone cut the master on all those vinyl singles I bought when I was younger. Someone cut the 2-sided 45's, someone cut the single-sided 33's that all the radio stations got. So not wanting to call it "mastering" because it's only a single doesn't (heh) cut it. Like saying a cell phone isn't a phone because it isn't connected to a wall plate.
Exactly.
Using '60s mindset and production standards as some absolute reference for all the music of the subsequent 60 years of music production evolution...
...is pretty myopic.
Nothing wrong with it stylistically as a personal choice...but it's not the end-all, be-all way to do things, or to appreciate music that came after.